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Old 05-18-20 | 05:35 PM
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Bikes: (2) ti TiCycles, 2007 w/ triple and 2011 fixed, 1979 Peter Mooney, ~1983 Trek 420 now fixed and ~1973 Raleigh Carlton Competition gravel grinder

No, you don't need another hobby, Just do the work to find a COVID-safe way to find that Park scale another home. I have two scales. But what I have to do ti weigh a bike accurately is more work than I am willing to do. I have an old (but descent) floor scale. Pretty accurate at my weight but I cannot see the gradations to better than 4 oz. (I weigh myself before I go to the doctor.) Other scale is a digital CJ4000 for weighing coffee beans. Goes to 4kg. Putting a frame on it is doable but not easy

So I know my bikes' weights to around a 1/2 pound. Refuse to obsess about it.

That coffee scale does come in very useful for Cycle Oregon. 60 pound bag limit. I bag with everything except that day's ride. Years ago I weight everything and made up a spreadsheet. Now I just copy the spreadsheet, knock off a few items I don't want this year, weigh the new ones and know to within a half pound what the bag will weigh. (Until last year. It rained the first 4 days. Bag kept getting heavier every day. Every morning my wet tent and damp clothes, sleeping bag and everything else got stuffed into that waterproof bag and zipped shut. Drying never happened until the afternoon of day 4 Sadly for the kids who loaded our bags. mine was not an exception.
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